Wesley's Explanatory Notes
2 Corinthians 10:14
We are come even to you — By a gradual, regular process, having taken the intermediate places in our way, in preaching the gospel of Christ.
We are come even to you — By a gradual, regular process, having taken the intermediate places in our way, in preaching the gospel of Christ.
Verse 14. _FOR WE STRETCH NOT OURSELVES BEYOND_] We have not proceeded straight from Macedonia through Thessaly, and across the Adriatic Gulf into Italy, which would have led us _beyond_ you _westwar...
FOR WE STRETCH NOT OURSELVES BEYOND OUR MEASURE - In coming to preach to you we have not gone beyond the proper limits assigned us. We have not endeavored to enlarge the proper boundaries, to stretch...
III. THE APOSTLE'S SELF-DEFENSE AND VINDICATION. CHAPTER S 10-13 1. The Vindication of His Authority CHAPTER 10 The apostle now turns to vindicate the authority, which he had received from the Lord....
PAUL'S CLAIM IS ABSOLUTE, YET LIMITED IN ITS SCOPE; FOR IT ARISES FROM AND IS GOVERNED BY HIS DEPENDENCE UPON GOD. This paragraph is full of allusion to the assertions, claims, and criticisms of his o...
Look at what lies in front of you. If anyone confidently believes that he belongs to Christ, let him examine his own case again, because, just as he belongs to Christ, so do we also. If I make what mi...
PAUL BEGINS TO ANSWER HIS CRITICS (2 Corinthians 10:1-6)...
STRETCH... BEYOND. Greek. _huperekteino,_ stretch out over. Only HERE. unto. Greek. _eis_. App-104. GOSPEL. Compare App-140....
_For we stretch not_ The meaning is, For we are not straining ourselves beyond our due limits in claiming you as our charge, for it is an undeniable fact that we came (the tense is the simple past in...
Caution to those who judge by outward appearance 7. _Do ye look on things after the outward appearance?_ The words here translated _outward appearance_are translated _when I am present_in 2 Corinthia...
ΟΥ̓ ΓᾺΡ ὩΣ ΜΉ (אDFGKLM, dfg Vulg.) rather than ὡς γὰρ μή (B 114, 116) or οὐ γὰρ μὴ ὡς (P). 14. ΟΥ̓ ΓᾺΡ ὩΣ ΜΉ. See critical note. The punctuation is doubtful, both as regards the whole verse, which may...
12–16. The difficulty of this passage has often been pointed out. Theodoret suggests that S. Paul has deliberately written obscurely, because he did not wish to be too definite in convicting his accus...
_ SEEKING THE GLORY OF GOD 2 CORINTHIANS 10:12-14:_ Those that criticized Paul were inclined to think highly of themselves and praise themselves. He said, "But when they measure themselves by one anot...
ΈΦΙΚΝΟΎΜΕΝΟΙ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΈΦΙΚΝΈΟΜΑΙ (G2185) (_см._ 2 Corinthians 10:13). ΎΠΕΡΕΚΤΕΊΝΟΜΕΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΎΠΕΡΕΚΤΕΊΝΩ (G5239) протягиваться, простираться. "Мы не переходим за гр...
FOR WE ARE COME AS FAR, &C.— This seems to charge the false Apostle, the grand leader of the faction, who had caused all this disturbance in the church of Corinth, that without being appointed to it,...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 3 Sane (2 Corinthians 10:12-18) 12Not that we venture to class or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But when they measure themselves by one an...
_APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS_ The Standard By Which The Apostle Boasted Scripture 2 Corinthians 10:13-18. But we will not glory beyond our measure, but according to the measure of the province which God app...
For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ: 'We are not stretching ourselves beyond...
11 Even forbearance and gentleness have their limits. The apostle makes it clear that. when he came to them again he would act quite as severely as he wrote in dealing with those who still opposed him...
(_B_) CHAPTER S 10-13. ST. PAUL'S DEFENCE OF HIS MINISTRY As explained in the Introduction, this section is regarded as part of the intermediate letter, referred to in 2 Corinthians 2:3 and 2 Corinthi...
PARAPHRASE. 'Others may boast without reason, but we will make no boast which cannot be justified by our work—a work which includes your conversion. (14) For in claiming you as our converts we are not...
WE ARE COME] He was the first to preach Christ in Corinth....
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 10 V1 I, Paul make an appeal to you by the *gentleness and kindness of Christ. When I am with you, you suppose me to be w...
FOR WE STRETCH NOT OURSELVES... AS THOUGH WE REACHED NOT UNTO YOU. — Some of the better MSS. omit the negative, and then the sentence must be taken as a question: “Are we over-reaching” (_i.e.,_ trans...
CHAPTER 23 COMPARISONS. 2 Corinthians 10:7 (R.V) THIS passage abounds with grammatical and textual difficulties, but the general import and the purpose of it are plain. The self-assertion of αυτος ε...
DESPITE ALL APPEARANCES, HIS APOSTOLICAL AUTHORITY IS WEIGHTY; HIS MISSION TO THE GREEKS IS A DIVINE TRUST....
οὐ γὰρ ὡς μὴ κ. τ. λ.: _for we stretch not ourselves overmuch, as though we reached not unto you_ (ὡς μή indicating that the case is only a hypothetical one; _cf._ 1 Corinthians 4:18); _for we came_ ...
ENLARGING ONE'S SPHERE OF INFLUENCE 2 Corinthians 10:8 There is marvelous power in the weakest of men, when governed by a single purpose and filled with the consciousness and the power of God. Weak a...
Here begins the third division of the epistle, in which the writer vindicates his authority. Here he seems to have more especially in mind the minority who have been opposed to him. While walking in t...
VERSE 14 He did not go out of the sphere assigned to him when he preached at Corinth. He even went to Corinth to fulfill his mission....
(7) Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's. (8) For t...
2 Corinthians 1:1-24. It is impossible to read the two epistles to the Corinthians with the smallest care without perceiving the strong contrast between the wounded tone of the first epistle (the hear...
_CONCERNING THE COLLECTION_ ‘For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ: not boasting o...
14._For we do not overstretch. _He alludes to persons who either forcibly stretch out their arms, or raise themselves up on their feet, when wishing to catch hold of what is not at their hand, (784) f...
The apostle returns to the subject which pre-occupied him his connections with the Corinthians, and the truth of his apostleship, which was questioned by those who seduced them, throwing contempt on h...
FOR WE STRETCH NOT OURSELVES BEYOND OUR MEASURE,.... They did not go beyond the bounds set them by the purpose and providence of God, by going to Corinth; nor did they boast of things without their me...
For we stretch not ourselves beyond _our measure_, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in _preaching_ the gospel of Christ: Ver. 14. _For we stretch not, &c._] υπ...
_We stretch not_, &c. In preaching at Corinth, we do not, like the false teacher, go out of our line, as _not reaching to you; but we are come_ even _as far as you_ By a gradual, regular process, havi...
WE STRETCH NOT OURSELVES; boast not ourselves beyond the sphere of our actual labors....
Paul appeals to the work actually done by him as apostle:...
FOR WE STRETCH NOT OURSELVES BEYOND OUR MEASURE, AS THOUGH WE REACHED UNTO YOU; FOR WE ARE COME AS FAR AS TO YOU ALSO IN PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST,...
Though his First Epistle had had good effect upon "the many" at Corinth, yet Paul finds it necessary, as led of the Spirit of God, to earnestly press the serious matter of God's establishing him as an...
12-18 If we would compare ourselves with others who excel us, this would be a good method to keep us humble. The apostle fixes a good rule for his conduct; namely, not to boast of things without his...
For in our boasting of you as our converts, amongst whom I have preached the gospel, and God hath made my preaching successful; WE STRETCH NOT OURSELVES BEYOND OUR MEASURE, and arrogate that to oursel...
For we stretch not ourselves overmuch, as though we reached not unto you: for we came even as far as unto you in the gospel of Christ:...
2 Corinthians 10:14 For G1063 are G5239 not G3756 overextending G5239 (G5719) ourselves G1438 as G5613 not...
‘For we stretch not ourselves overmuch, as though we reached not to you, for we came even as far as to you in the gospel of Christ, not glorying beyond our measure, that is, in other men's labours, bu...
WE STRETCH NOT OURSELVES OVERMUCH (ου υπερεκτεινομεν εαυτους). Apparently Paul made this double compound verb to express his full meaning (only in Gregory Nazianzen afterwards). "We do not stretch...
CONTENTS: Vindication of Paul's apostleship, and his appeal to Corinthians as brethren in Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: The servants of Christ should be sensible of their own inf...
2 Corinthians 10:1. _Who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold towards you._ Paul retorts ironically the unworthy insinuations of the false teachers, sent out by the sanhedrim of Jer...
AND SINCE YOU ARE WITHIN. Paul was working within God's limits when he planted the church at Corinth. In contrast, the false teachers had not been sent by God!...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 10:12 Paul now turns to reestablishing his authority in Corinth by (1) defining the proper standard for apostolic authority and (2) demonstrating that his ministry...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 10:13 In contrast to his opponents, Paul does NOT BOAST BEYOND LIMITS (that is, beyond the sphere of his God-given apostolic authority). His apostolic authority in...
CHAPTER 10 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. In this and the two next Chapter s Paul defends his apostleship against the false apostles, who held him up to contempt as vile and despicable, and accused him o...
_For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure._ This is his third scornful charge against the false apostles. They stretch out themselves and more than that by their boastful words, but let us see...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ REMARKABLE CHANGE OF TONE here, and henceforward. So remarkable that—in last century, for the first time, then in beginning of this, and again, after a respite, during the last fifty...
EXPOSITION With this chapter begins the last great section of the Epistle (verse 1-2 Corinthians 13:10), which contains an impassioned vindication of the apostle's position as compared with that of hi...
Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent [I am] bold toward you (2 Corinthians 10:1): This is one of the charges that...
1 Corinthians 2:10; 1 Corinthians 3:10; 1 Corinthians 3:5; 1 Corinthians 4:15;...
We stretch not ourselves beyond our measure [μ η υ π ε ρ ε κ τ ε ι ν ο μ ε ν ε α υ τ ο υ ς]. The verb only here in the New Testament. The A. V. is needlessly verbose. Rev., better, stretch not ourselv...